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Yandex shuts Sasovo data center after drone-triggered fire

By Drooid · Oct 8, 2026, 10:54 PM UTC · How we work

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Yandex Shuts DataCenter

Yandex shut down its Sasovo data center after a drone-triggered fire on October 8.
The fire damaged servers and disabled the ru-central1-b cloud zone.
Yandex asked customers to migrate services to other availability zones.
Outages affected banks, retailers, mobile operators and major Russian sites from 4 p.m. onward.
Avito recorded over 14,000 user complaints, the highest among services.

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Ukrainian Drone Strikes

A Ukrainian drone strike hit the Sasovo data centre, marking the first confirmed attack on a Russian data centre.
Two of Yandex’s three AI supercomputers for YandexGPT were in the damaged Sasovo hub.
Yandex cannot yet confirm whether the damaged equipment can be restored.
Yandex reported its main consumer services stayed fully functional despite the outage.
Ukraine has not claimed responsibility, not confirming strikes on Russian territory.

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Putin Grants State Control

Yandex shares fell about 3.4% to 3,568.5 roubles in early Moscow trading after the attack.
President Vladimir Putin signed an August decree giving the state authority over poorly protected critical infrastructure.
The Defense Ministry reported shooting down 399 Ukrainian drones over 19 Russian regions, including Ryazan, in recent days.
Ukraine’s long-range campaign now targets computing infrastructure, adding a new vulnerability layer to Russia’s digital economy.

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Yandex Shuts DataCenter

Yandex shut down its Sasovo data center after a drone-triggered fire on October 8.
The fire damaged servers and disabled the ru-central1-b cloud zone.
Yandex asked customers to migrate services to other availability zones.
Outages affected banks, retailers, mobile operators and major Russian sites from 4 p.m. onward.
Avito recorded over 14,000 user complaints, the highest among services.

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